ON THIS DATE: NOV. 30th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
30 Nov 1663 7x ggf James Thomas was born in Marshfield, Ma.
30 Nov 1785 4x ggm Polly Griffith was born in Newfane, Vt.

MARRIAGE:
30 Nov 1768 5x ggp Elisha Houghton & Meriah Peirce were married in Bolton, Ma.

DEATH:
30 Nov 1672 9x ggf Gregory Stone died in Cambrifge, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 29th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
29 Nov 1694 6x ggm Hannah Tuttle was born in Haverhill, Ma.

MARRIAGES:
29 Nov 1649 9x ggp John Lazell & Elizabeth Gates were married in Hingham, Ma.
29 Nov 1680 8x ggp William Lovejoy & Mary Farnum were married in Andover, Ma.

DEATHS:
29 Nov 1680 10 ggf William Langley died in Groton, Ma.
29 Nov 1657 8x ggf Isaac Learned Sr. died in Chelmsford, Ma.
29 Nov 1752 7x ggm Elzabeth (Tuttle) Ayer died in Haverhill, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV.28th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
28 Nov 1739 6x ggf Hezekiah Boyden was born in Worcester, Ma.
28 Nov 1852 ggf John McFarland was born in Ireland.

MARRIAGES:
28 Nov 1678 8x ggp Josiah White & Mary Rice were married in Marlborough, Ma.
28 Nov 1666 7x ggp Robert Barrows & Ruth Bonham were married in Plymouth, Ma.

DEATH:
28 Nov 1699 10x ggm Mary (Allerton) Cushman died in Plymouth, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV.26th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
26 Nov 1640 8x ggf Samuel Davis was born in Haverhill, Ma.
26 Nov 1664 7x ggf Ichabod Robie was born in Hampton, N.H.
26 Nov 1690 7x ggm Martha Tuthill was born in Ipswich, Ma.

DEATHS:
26 Nov 1690 8x ggf John Stevens 3rd drowned in  Casco Bay, Me
26 Nov 1641 10x ggf William Chandler died in Roxbury, Ma,

EATING AT THE KIDS TABLE

 

 ((I first posted these Thanksgiving memories in 2011))


Thanksgiving is approaching and it brings back memories of Thanksgivings
when we were kids.

If we were hosting the family that year, Dad would be up early in the
morning cooking the bird. I don't know how many companies do it
today but back then many employers gave their workers a frozen
turkey for Thanksgiving so when that happened my parents would
decide if it was big enough for the whole family and guests. If not,
it would stay in the freezer and they'd buy a bigger turkey. The smaller
one would be used for a Sunday dinner for the family a few weeks later.

When the rest of us got up my sister and I would watch the Thanksgving
Day parades on TV while Mom and Dad started on the rest of the food.
The most critical part of the preparations was the stuffing which had to
turn out moist at the meal. I don't know exactly how this was done
nearly every year except that for most of my childhood my folks used
Bell Stuffing in the bird. (When we were older, there was often "backup"
Stove Top Stuffing for when the "made in the bird" stuffing ran out).
   
But no matter whether we were hosting Thanksgiving or if  it was at our
Uncle Ed and Aunt Mimi's house, there were certain traditions. One was
the kids' table, usually in the kitchen or at the doorway between the dining
room and the living room. In the early years, four of us were seated there:
myself, my sister Cheryl, and our cousins Winnie and Richie.For us, the
most important part of the meal was who was going to get the drumsticks.
After all, there were only two drumsticks and there were four of us! Our
parents at first solved the problem by using a rotating system that was based
on age: Winnie and I were the older and would get the drumsticks at that
Thanksgiving, and Cheryl and Richie would get them at Christmas, since
the families served turkey for the holiday dinner then, This worked for a few
years until my Aunt and Uncle had two more boys, Little Eddie and Vincent,
and then my brother Phil came along but by that time somebody had figured
out they could buy extra drumsticks at the supermarket and chaos was averted.

Eventually, one by one, we all outgrew the kids' table and the need to be
the one who ate the drumstick. I found out that I liked the slices of dark
meat better and that cranberry sauce was my favorite part of the main
meal. I also learned that if we were eating at my Aunt and Uncle's house
I should leave room for the second course of all the Italian food, especially
the lasagna. If the meal were at our house, there was a later leftover
sandwich with turkey and stuffing and maybe a little more cranberry sauce
on it.

One not so pleasant Thanksgiving memory was the turkey I forgot. I was
working somewhere at the time, (I forget now if it was at Child World or
Big L Drug Discount Stores) and I got a frozen holiday turkey from the
company which I loaded into the back floor of my car before I drove home.

I forgot it was in the car...

For two days....

Luckily, it wasn't a very warm November.

But it did look sort of green when I finally remembered it was there and
took it inside.

ON THIS DATE: NOV 22nd

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
22 Nov 1684 7x ggf Samuel Pheilps was born in Andover, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
22 Nov 1803 4x ggp Johann Ruppmich & Christina Krehwisch were married in Brandenburg, Ger. 

  
DEATH:
22 Nov 1718 8x ggf John Hayward died in Concord, Ma.

NOVEMBER 22nd, 1963

 ((First posted on 22Nov 2016))

On November 22, 1963 I was a sophomore at Abington High School here in Abington, Ma. It was
near the end of the school day, and I was in my last class, American History with Mr Smith. Suddenly
the door at the back of the room opened and Mr.Divoll walked in from his room and told us the
president had been shot.

Mr. Divoll was the Drama Coach as well as a history teacher and was known to use a little theater in
his classes, so at first I wasn't sure what this was all about. When he said it again, this time using
President Kennedy's name, reality hit me.

I don't remember if we were dismissed from school early that day. I suspect not. School got out for
the day at 2pm and the news that JFK was dead broke around 2:30. So most of us had gone home by
then. Mom usually watched the CBS soap operas so when they switched to live coverage of what had
happened it was Walter Cronkite who told us the awful news.

Two days later my family went to my Uncle Ed's house for Thanksgiving dinner and we heard on the
car radio that Jack Ruby had killed Lee Harvey Oswald.

Of course the whole country was in shock but JFK's death really hit New England hard, especially
we Irish Roman Catholics. JFK was the first of us elected president, and it was a tremendous source of pride, especially in Massachusetts. His election had been the ultimate triumph of generations of Irish immigrants over anti-Irish Catholic discrimination.

I remember the pictures of the Kennedy children, and watching the funeral procession with the riderless horse. I remember the cadence of the drums.

It was the start of one of the most turbulent eras in our history, but I didn't know it at the time. 

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 20th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
20 Nov 1647 7x ggf Jonathan Hallett was born in Yarmouth. Ma.

MARRIAGE:
20 Nov 1661 9x ggp John Eaton & Ann Crossman were married in Haverhill, Ma.

DEATHS:
20 Nov 1688 9x ggm Mary (Smith) Kimball died in Ipswich, Ma.
20 Nov 1696 8x ggf Samuel Smith died in Eastham, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV.19th

 ON THIS DATE
BIRTHS:
19 Nov 1828 2x ggf Amos Hasting Barker was born in Rumford, Ma.
19 Nov 1652 7x ggf Andrew Spaulding was born in Chelmsford, Ma..

MARRIAGE:
19 Nov 1774 4x ggp Asa Barrows & Content Benson were married in Middleboro Ma.

DEATHS:
19 Nov 1679 9x ggf Roger Conant died in Beverly, Ma.
19 Nov 1678 9x ggm Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf died in Newbury, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 18th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
18 Nov 1638 9x ggf Samuel Ward was born in Hingham, Ma.

MARRIAGES:
18 Nov 1794 4x ggp Philip Pierce Richardson & Lydia Dow were married in Pembroke, N.H.
18 Nov 1811 4x ggp John Laughton & Amata Greenleaf were married in Mercer, Me.

DEATH:
18 Nov 1691 8x ggf Adam Hawkes died in Lynn, Ma.
 

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 17th

 ON THIS DATE
BIRTH:
17 Nov 1654 8x ggf Joshua Lazell was born in Hingham, Ma.

DEATHS:
17 Nov 1667 9x ggf Thomas Rowlandson died in Lancaster, Ma.
17 Nov 1671 10x ggm Isabel (Cox) Leffingwell died in Woburn, Ma.
17 Nov 1723 6x ggm Elizabeth (Hallett) Crowell died in Chatham, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 16th

 

ON THIS DATE:

BIRTH:

16 Nov 1695 6x ggf Joseph Herrick was born in Beverly, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

16 Nov 1681 8x ggp Francis Dane Jr. & Hannah Poor were married in Andover, Ma.

16 Nov 1643 9x ggp William Haskell Jr & Mary Tybbot were married in Gloucester, Ma.

16 Nov 1654 8x ggp John Moore Jr. & Anne Smith were married in Lancaster, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

16 Nov 1767 6x ggm Abigail (Smith)Dunham died in Plymouth, Ma.

16 Nov 1715 8x ggm Hannah (Long) Perlins died in Charlestown, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 15th

 

ON THIS DATE:

BIRTH:

15 Nov 1648 9x ggm Mary Smith was born in Reading, Ma.

 

MARRIAGE:

15 Nov 1659 8x ggp Peter Ayer & Hannah Ayer were married in Haverhill, Ma

 

DEATH:

15 Nov 1676 9x ggf Nicholas Snow died in Eastham, Ma.

15 Nov 1706 8x ggf Francis Page died in Hampton, N.H.

15 Nov 1719 9x ggf Thomas Boyden Jr. died in Groton, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: NOV 13th

 ON THIS DATE
BIRTHS:
13 Nov 1668 7x ggm Dorothy Colby was born  in Amesbury, Ma.
13 Nov 1738 5x ggm Esther Butterfield was born in Chelmsford, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
 13 Nov 1651 9x ggp Stephen Greenleaf & Elizabeth Coffin were married in Newbury, Ma.

DEATHS:
13 Nov 1733 7x ggf Joseph Colburn died  in Dracut, Ma.
13 Nov 1644 9x ggm Sarah (Elwyn) Metcalf died in Dedham, Ma.

0N THIS DATE: NOV 12th

 ON THIS DATE
BIRTH:
12 Nov 1734 6x ggm Susannah Nutting was born in Groton, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
12 Nov 1718 8x ggp Thomas Green Sr. & Mary John son were married in Marlboro, Ma.

DEATHS:
12 Nov 1712 8x ggf Samuel Parker died in Groton, Ma.
12 Nov 1724 7x ggf Nathaniel Stow Jr. died in Concord, Ma.
12 Nov 1712 9x ggm Ruth (Andrews) Stanley died in Topsfield, Ma.
12 Nov 1694 10x ggf Robert Babcock died in Milton, Ma.
12 Nov 1715 8x Mary (Brown) Haskell died in Gloucester, Ma.
12 Nov 1800 5x ggf James Swan died in Bethel, Me.

FLYBOYS 2023

 

((I'm reposting this again today  for Veterans Day weekend in hopes that perhaps the relatives of the men in the photograph might one day find this picture of their veterans. First posted
June, 2008))




I've posted this photo before. It's from when my Dad was
training for the Air Corps during World War II before he
washed out due to inner ear problems.


On the back is a partial list of names of his fellow trainees,
and I'm posting that image now and my attempt at
transcribing it here in the hopes that the children and
grandchildren of these men might find it someday and see
how they looked in their uniforms before they went off to
war.


Because of the way the men are grouped it's hard for me to
assign names to specific faces. The only two I can are Michael
D. Piper Jr. and Lonnie (or Lennie?) L. Parker (?) standing to
either side of my father Floyd E. West Jr. at the far right end
of the back row. I think the first name is actually Lee Mill
Sanders and that he just signed the list "last name first."


I also noticed that Daniel M. Jeffrey's name appears twice.
The first entry is crossed over so I've assumed that either
someone else had posted the name in the wrong place or he
had done so himself and then corrected his mistake. I've
changed the first entry to "unknown".


So here they are. I wonder how many of them made it
home after the war, and I thank them for their service
to our country.


Sanders Lee Mill Artesia N.M.

Palmer E. Severson Wanooka (?) Minn,

Jerald L. Swan, Beatrice, Nebraska

Helmut Paul Zimmerman, Buffalo, N.Y.

Robert L. Rugg Pueblo, Colorado

Unknown

Charles H. Parman, Skidmore, Mo.

Unknown

Unknown

Bill C. Hays, San Angelo, Texas

Unknown

Ward L. Warnock, Camden, Ark.

Michael C. Sanborn (?) Port Arthur, Tex.

Bob Moffet, St. Joseph, Mo.

Unknown

Ross Powill, Ellisville Miss

Daniel M. Jeffrey, Jeanette, La.

Allen D. Bailey, Mpls Minnesota

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Jack Sessions Colton, California

Jack Wendt, Pecos, Texas

Unknown

Burton L. Steele, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bob E Wick,  Denver, Colorado

James H. Trask, Kansas City, Kansas

William E. Green,  Eden, Texas

Unknown

Unknown

Michael D. Piper Jr., Queen City, Mo.

Floyd E. West

Lonnie (or Lennie?) L. Parker (?), Roswell, New Mex.

VETERANS DAY 2023

On Veterans Day I like to pay tribute to the members of
our family who have served our country from its birth. I don't
have all the details of the service records, and I'm sure I will
discover more relatives to add later, but this is what I have so far.

American Revolution: 
 
Jonathan Barker Jr. My 4x great grandfather
Was a Minuteman from Methuen Ma with rank of Sergeant.
He responded to Lexington and Concord with his sons
Served in Captain Samuel Johnson's Company in
Colonel Titcomb's Regiment for 2 months in 1777 in Rhode
Island and then with Nathaniel Gage's Company in Colonel
Jacob Gerrish's guards from Dec 1777 tol April 1778 guarding
the captured troops of General Burgoyne.


Jonathan Barker 3rd  My 5x great grandfather

Enlisted on 19 Apr 1775 in Continental Army, Capt. John
Davis' Company, Col. James Frye's Regiment, in the
Massachusetts line for 8 months in Cambridge, Ma. At the
conclusion of the term, he reenlisted for another 3 months in
Capt John Allen's Company, Colonel John Waldron's Regiment,
General Sullivan's Brigade in the New Hampshire Brigade at
Charlestown, Ma. He then enlisted a third time in June 1778
at Methuen, Ma., joining Captain Samuel Carr's Company, Col.
James Weston's Regiment, in General Lerned's Brigade at
White Plains, N.Y. and serving for another 9 months.


John Ames       My 5x great grandfather

Was a Minuteman under Capt. Asa Parker on April 18th,
1775. He then enlisted in the Continental Army under Captain
Oliver Parker, Col. William Prescott's Regiment and
in the Brigade that was commanded in turn by Generals
Putnam, Lee, and Washington and served for 8 1/2 months.
For a more detailed account of his service see my posts
about his Revolutionary War Pension File starting here.


Asa Barrows    My 4x great grandfather

A member of the militia from Middleborough , Ma. (south of
Boston) in the Company of Captain Joshua Benson, in Colonel
Cotton's Regiment, and General William Heath's Brigade for
8 months during the siege of Boston. In December 1776 he
joined a militia Company commanded by Captain Joshua
Perkins and marched to Barrington, R.I. and was stationed
there for 6 weeks. In July 1780 he again enlisted, this time
in a militia company commanded by Captain Perez Churchill
that marched to Tiverton, R.I. I posted about his
Revolutionary War Pension File starting here.


Moses Coburn  My 4x great grandfather

Moses Coburn got into the War late and by reason of being
"hired by a certain class of men in the then town of Dunstable
to go into the Continental Army in the summer of 1781."
When he reached Phillipsburgh in New York he was placed in
Captain Benjamin Pike's Company, in the Regiment of the
Massachusetts line commanded by Lt. Colonel Calvin Smith in
which he served for nearly two years until it was broken up.
He then transferred to the Company of Judah Alden in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel Sprouts until his discharge
in 1783.


Samuel Haskell   My 5x great grandfather

Samuel served in Captain Joseph Elliott's Company in Colonel
William Turner's Regiment and then under Captain Hezekiah
Whitney in Colonel Josiah Whitney's Regiment.


Amos Hastings   My 5x great grandfather

Amos was responded to the Lexington Alarm as part of
Captain Richard Ayer's Company and Colonel William
Johnson's Regiment. He later served in Captain Timothy
Eaton's Company in Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's Regiment
and was at the taking of the British General Burgoyne at
Ticonderoga.



Elisha Houghton   5x great grandfather

Enlisted at Harvard Ma as a Private in May of 1777 in the
Massachusetts militia and was at the Battles of Bunker Hill
and Stillwater. He then enlisted for three years in the infantry
company commanded by Captain Joshua Brown in Colonel
Timothy Bigelow's 15th Regiment of the Massachusetts line.
and took part in the Battles of Monmouth and Newport and
was at Valley Forge. He twice was promoted to Sergeant and
twice was busted back down to the ranks.


Amos Upton    My 5x great grandfather

Responded to the Lexington Alarm and marched there from
his home in Reading. He later joined the militia company
commanded by Captain Asa Prince as an orderly sergeant
and then enlisted for eight months in the Continental Army
under Colonel Mansfield for 8 months. He was at the Battle
of Bunker Hill. He was discharged in October of 1775.


John Griffith  My 5x great grandfather

Enlisted in 1781 as a Matross (he swabbed out the barrel of
the cannons after they fired, or so I've been told) in Captain
William Treadwell's Company in Colonel John Crane's
Artillery Regiment.



Reuben Packard   My 5x great grandfather

A Sergeant in Captain Josiah Hayden's Company in Colonel
Bailey's militia. They marched to Lexington at news of the
Alarm. He also responded several more times as a Minuteman
for a total of nearly 8 months duty.


Jonathan Abbot    My 5x great grandfather

Served as a Sergeant in the Militia under Captain Henry
Abbott and responded to the Lexington Alarm

Samuel Stowe  My 5x great grandfather

Minuteman from Sherborn, Ma. Served in Capt. Benjamin Bullard's
Company in Col. Asa Whitcomb's 5th Massachusetts Bay
Provincial Regiment

Besides those direct ancestors, these other relatives fought
in the Revolution:

Moses Barrows, brother to Asa Barrows.

Samuel, Jesse, and Benjamin Barker, sons of Jonathan
Barker, Jr. and brothers to Jonathan Barker 3rd.

James Swan, brother in law to Jonathan Barker.

War of 1812
John Griffith My 5x great grandfather

served in Capt Elias Morse's Company, Col. Holland's Regiment
as part of a artillery company defending Portland, Maine.

Amos Hastings My 5x great grandfather
helped organize the militia in Bethel, Maine and rose
to the rank of Brigadier General  of the 2nd Brigade, 13th Division of
the Massachusetts State Militia.

Nathaniel Barker  My 3x great grandfather
was a private in  the company commanded by Captain William Wheeler
in the Regiment  of Militia commanded by Col. Ryerson, which was
stationed at Portland, Maine.

Civil War
Asa Freeman Ellingwood  My 2x great grandfather

enlisted in Company I, 5th Maine Infantry, on June 24, 1861.
He was at the First Battle of Bull Run after which he received
a medical discharge in Dec 1861. He reenlisted inCo "A" 9th
Veteran R Corps in September 1864 and served until the end
of the war when he was honorably discharged.

Asa & Florilla Ellingwood

Other relatives who served in the Civil War:

2x great granduncles:

 Leonidas West
Enlisted in Company G 12 Maine Infantry Regiment on March 1,
1865. Mustered out on  18Apr 1866

Asa Atwood West
Enlisted in Company F of the Maine Coast Guard.

Oscar Phipps Ellingwood
Enlisted in Company E, New Hampshire 14th Infantry Regiment
23Sept 1862, mustered out 9Sep 1863. Transferred to Company
E,  U.S,.Veterans Reserve Corps 21st Infantry Regiment 9Sep 1863,
mustered out 11Jul 1865.

Cousins:

Charles O. Ellingwood
Enlisted 21 Dec 1863 in Company E, 9th New Hampshire Infantry.
Died 13Mar 1864 at Camp Burnside,Kentucky. (18 yrs old)


Henry O. Ellingwood Enlisted 25Oct 1862  Company K,  New
Hampshire 16th Infantry Regiment, died  1Mar 1863 in Carollton, La.

Franklin Dunham
Died in the War. Haven't found any details as yet.


Spanish-American War
Hollis J Ellingwood My cousin
Enlisted 2May 1898 in Company A 1st Regiment Maine Infantry
Discharged 28Oct 1898

World War 1

 Floyd E West Sr. My grandfather

Floyd E West Sr.

Enlisted 29Apr 1918. Served in Company K,303rd Infantry. He was a
corpsman at Camp Devens, Ma during the Spanish Influenza outbreak
and was honorably discharged 12 Mar 1919


World War II

Floyd E West Jr  My Dad

Enlisted 19 Mar 1943 at 18 years old. After washing out of the Air Corps
Bomber School, he served in the US Army Infantry in the Pacific Theater  and
was honorably discharged on 11 Mar 1946 at age 22

Edward F White, Jr. My Uncle

Enlisted in the U.S.Navy on 27Oct 1942 at 17years old. He was honorably
discharged 18Apr 1946, a week before his 21st birthday.

Charles Barger My Uncle
I don't know the specifics of his service yet.
 
Operation Iraqi Freedom
 Paul Skarinka My Nephew

Paul And Jen

MY ALLERTON & WARREN MAYFLOWER ANCESTRY

 

 

Whenever I am talking or writing about my Mayflower descent, for some
ironic reason I always forget about Remember Allerton. The reason for the
irony is that both my Dad's parents were Allerton descendants: Pop from
Remember Allerton and Grandma Bertha from Mary Allerton.:


Allerton #1 through Ellingwood Line

Isaac Allerton & Mary Norris
Remember Allerton & Moses Maverick
Abigail Maverick & Samuel Ward
Martha Ward & John Tuthill(Tuttle)
Martha Tuthill(Tuttle) & Mark Haskell
Martha Haskell & John Safford
Ruth Safford & Samuel Haskell
Martha Haskell & Moses Houghton
Sally Houghton & James Thomas Dunham
Florilla Dunham & Asa Freeman Ellingwood
Clara Ellingwood & Phillip Jonathan West
Floyd Earl West Sr  & Cora B Barker
Floyd Earl West Jr &  Anne Marie White



Allerton #2 through Barker Line


Isaac Allerton & Mary Norris
Mary Allerton & Thomas Cushman
Sarah Cushman & Adam Hawkes
John Hawkes & Mary(Margery)Whitford
Eva Hawkes & John Bancroft         Eunice Hawkes & Jacob Walton
John Bancroft & Mary Walton
Sally(Sarah)Bancroft & Francis Upton
Hannah Upton & Cyrus Moore
Betsey Jane Moore & Amos Hastings Barker
Charlotte Lovenia Barker & Frank W Barker
Cora B, Barker & Floyd Earl Wesrt Sr
Floyd Earl West Jr and Anne Marie White.

My Warren ancestry comes through my Ames line

Warren #1 Through Ames Line

Richard Warren  &  Elizabeth (?)
Mary Warren & Robert Bartlett
Mary Bartlett & Jonathan Mowrey(Morey)
Hannah Mowrey(Morey) & John Bumpas
Mary Bumpas & Seth Ellis
Mary Ellis & Ephraim Griffith
John Griffith & Mary Boyden
Polly Griffith & Jonathan Phelps Ames
Arvilla S. Ames & John Cutter West
John Cutter West & Louisa Richardson
Phillip Jonathan West & Clara Ellingwood
Floyd Earl West Sr & Cora B Barker
Floyd Earl West Jr and Anne Marie White.



Warren #2 Through Dunham Line:

Richard Warren & Elizabeth (LNU)
Ann Warren & Thomas Little
Hannah Little & Stephen Tilden
Mary Tilden & James Thomas
John Thomas & Abigail Dunham
Mary Thomas & John Dunham
James Dunham  & Cynthia Packard
James Thomas Dunham & Sally Houghton
Florilla Dunham & Asa Ellingwood
Clara Ellingwood & Philip J West
Floyd E West Sr & Cora Bertha Barker

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 5th

 

ON THIS DATE:

BIRTH:

5 Nov 1639 6x ggf Robert Barrows was born in Plymouth, Ma.

 

MARRIAGES:

5 Nov 1644 8x ggp John Wyman & Sarah Nutt were married in Woburn, Ma.

5 Nov 1664 9x ggp Jeremiah Swain & Mary Smith were married at Reading, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

5 Nov 1954 ggf Philip J. West died in Wilsons Mills, Me.

5 Nov 1907 2x ggf Amos Hastings Barker died in Bethel, Me.

5 Nov 1683 10x ggf Benjamin Crispe died in Groton, Ma.

ANOTHER HOPKINS MAYFLOWER CONNECTION

 Now that the John Cutter West brickwall has come down, I have new branches of the family to explore. Recently I took advantage of the week of free access to all the databases at the AmericanAncestors.org website to fill in some gaps. Many of my early West ancestors came from Barnstable County, Massachusetts and so far I hadn't found many documents online for them, but there were databases on AmericanAncestors that I was able to see during that free access week.

So I started in on investigating the family of my 5x great grandmother Sarah (Hamilton) West, tracing it back with vital records, probate files and town and family histories. Much to my surprise and delight, I found another connection to Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. I had previously discovered one with his daughter Constance (Hopkins) Snow; this new one was was with his son Gyles/Giles Hopkins. Here's a relationship from Gyles/Giles to my Dad:

As I said, there are vital records and probate files for many of the people in this line, and I'll be discussing them  here as I go along. But I found other family lines that I will list in the next posts.

OUR HOWLAND MAYFLOWER DESCENT

 

About a year ago I discovered my West family may be descended from Mayflower passenger John Howland. But I hadn't had a chance to dig deeper . Looking into Probate files from AmericanAncestors.org. I found Mary West receiving part of the estate of James Bearce Sr. in 1728. 

 

Then I found a James Bearse (Jr?)taking guardianship of three sons of Elisha West's sons in 1738/9 after Elisha's death. 

 

Elisha West was married to Mary Bearce.

 

Mary Bearce was the daughter of James Bearce. and Experience Howland, whose grandfather was John Howland of the Mayflower.

 

That's all I could find so far that isn't behind a paywall.

 

MY ELLINGWOOD MAYFLOWER ANCESTRY

 

 

 Back when I first started researching the family genealogy online I was
thrilled to discover we were descended from several Mayflower passengers.
At one point I even carried around a small folded up piece of paper
in my wallet with the lines of descent to show when discussing genealogy
with some customer at the bookstore. But I lost that some time ago, so I
thought I'd post them here for other family members.

The first three lines come down through my Ellingwood ancestry from
Stephen Hopkins, Thomas Rogers, and James Chilton.

Hopkins Line
Stephen Hopkins and Mary____
Constance Hopkins & Nicholas Snow
Elizabeth Snow & Thomas Rogers
Eleazer Rogers & Ruhamah Willis
Experience Rogers & Stephen Totman
Deborah Totman & Moses Barrows Jr.
Asa Barrows & Content Benson
Rachel Barrows & John Ellingwood Jr
Asa F. Ellingwood & Florilla Dunham
Clara Ellingwood & Philip West
Floyd West Sr & Clara Barker
Floyd West Jr & Anne M White

Rogers Line
Thomas Rogers & Alice Cosford
Joseph Rogers & Hannah___
Thomas Rogers & Elizabeth Snow
Eleazer Rogers & Ruhamah Willis
Experience Rogers & Stephen Totman
Deborah Totman & Moses Barrows Jr.
Asa Barrows & Content Benson
Rachel Barrows & John Ellingwood Jr
Asa F. Ellingwood & Florilla Dunham
Clara Ellingwood & Philip West
Floyd West Sr & Clara Barker
Floyd West Jr & Anne M White

Chilton Line
James Chilton & ?
Isabella Chilton & Roger Chandler
Sarah Chandler & Moses Simmons
Moses Simmons Jr & Patience Barstow
Patience Simmons & George Barrows
Moses Barrows & Mary Carver
Deborah Totman & Moses Barrows Jr.
Asa Barrows & Content Benson
Rachel Barrows & John Ellingwood Jr
Asa F. Ellingwood & Florilla Dunham
Clara Ellingwood & Philip West
Floyd West Sr & Clara Barker
Floyd West Jr & Anne M White

ON THIS DATE: NOV. 2nd

 ON THIS DATE
BIRTHS:
2 Nov 1658 8x ggf John Clarke was born in Lynn, Ma.
2 Nov 1720 6x ggm Martha Lovejoy was born in Andover, Ma

DEATHS:
2 Nov 1688 7x ggf Samuel Briggs died in Rochester, Ma.
21 Jun 1682 9x ggf Edmund Freeman died in Sandwich, Ma.
2 Nov 1651 10x ggf John Bailey Sr. died in Newbury, Ma.